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The soccer community is mourning the loss of a UC Berkeley athlete who disappeared after a frat party Saturday and was later discovered to have been fatally struck by a car on the 10 Freeway. Eloi Vasquez had aspirations of becoming of a professional soccer player and could have played for a Major League Soccer team, his coach said. So when the San Rafael native went missing over the weekend during a trip with his teammates to Los Angeles, friends, family and the soccer community rallied to find him. But on Monday investigators discovered the 19-year-old freshman had been killed two days earlier. After leaving a party held at the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity near USC, the Marin County...

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